The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 24th September 2002 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 24th September 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: A miss from August and, with time, a miss from WillJULIETAAcross 4: Notables then, not-ables now?HASBEENSAAcross 9: "R loves me whole-heartedly!" (1 across)?ROMEOAAcross 10: Cast aggressively before fish in fine feathersFLINGDOWNAAcross 11: Dethrone and sit on one dangerouslyDISANOINTAAcross 12: Accommodation with hot water in YorkshireHOUSEAAcross 13: Unravelling a logic, denser as compressed would you say?CLOSE-GRAINEDAAcross 17: Subtle St Michael, the DestroyerTHEALCHEMISTAAcross 20: Bad odour has the prince leaving the platformODIUMAAcross 21: Forms of public transport by the Tiber, sayRHOMBUSESAAcross 23: Certain an assortment is sent?INATRANCEAAcross 24: Energy backing the last word in irrigationENEMAAAcross 25: They are hot and cold around the Southwark and Lambeth areaCHILLIESAAcross 26: Takes trouble with daughter? Cousins did!SKATEDDDown 1: One or the other litigated in 22 12 to preserve North Aberdeen airportJARNDYCEDDown 2: Blair ignoring Tyneside to hold service in CyprusLIMASSOLDDown 3: Remove old oil refinery in some measureELOINDDown 5: America's epistolist with a satiric look East, perhapsALISTAIR COOKEDDown 6: One assuming the lead in "The Mousetrap"?BIG CHEESEDDown 7: Book the return passageEXODUSDDown 8: Donne's topped in a way by something of Petrarch'sSONNETDDown 10: Part of 9 and 1 across ravaging ie rural FranceFRIARLAURENCEDDown 14: Fugitive with a record (Hear me out!) leftEPHEMERALDDown 15: Wasted time after she didn't marry the writerMISSPENTDDown 16: How oral evidence is presented, apparentlyITISSAIDDDown 18: Old Ford's highly placed housesZODIACDDown 19: Caribbean characters promoted in surrealist's festivalDIWALIDDown 22: Barren black betrayalBLEAK